Transaction costs and security institutions
Subtitle: unravelling the ESDP
By: Moritz Weiss
Series: Transformations of the state; Transformations of the state
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780230280120
Subjects: European Security and Defense Policy; National security; Defenses; International cooperation; Costs; Transaction costs
Description: "Examines international cooperation in European security from a transaction cost economics perspective. This book addresses the puzzle of how to approach differing institutional preferences. It argues that the reduction and limitation of transaction costs was the primary determinant of security preferences"--
Notes: "CRC 597."--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PART I: PREFERENCES, SECURITY INSTITUTIONS AND TRANSACTION COSTS IN WORLD POLITICS; title: Introduction; title: Theorising Preference Formation for Institution-Building in European Security; title: Transaction Costs and Security Institutions; title: PART II: UNRAVELLING THE EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY (EDSP); title: The Demand for a Security Institution: German, British and French Perceptions of the Environment in the 1990s; title: Germany; title: From Defending the Alliance's Territory To Crisis Management for the Union; title: Great Britain; title: From Opposing the Union towards a Subordinated ESDP; title: France; title: From Gradual WEU Integration to Full-Scale ESDP; title: Germany: An Incrementally Decreasing Willingness to Bind the Country; title: Great Britain; title: From No EU Security Policy To a Purely Intergovernmental ESDP; title: France; title: A Consistently Intergovernmental Approach towards ESDP; title: PART III: TRANSACTION COSTS AND SECURITY INSTITUTIONS: ESDP UNRAVELLED; title: Alternative Explanations and Theoretical Scope of the Transaction Costs Framework; title: Conclusion; title: Theory-Development in the European Security and Defence Policy.